HELLO, I’M OKUMU AJINGA
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Kindly come with me as i share my portfolio with you I am a Graphic Designer and my major is the product design. Product design is my favorite in the entire graphic design
Okumu
Ajinga
PRODUCT DESIGNER
www.gdak.co.ke
ajingokumu@gmail.com
+254 706 558 781
STUDIES
I am a profesional graphic designer i major in product design currently, I am also the founder of Graphic Designers Association of Kenya and the current President.
Being a designer has it challenges and this inspired me to have registered Association
SKILLS
Photoshop
CRAFT SILICON FOUNDATION
2012-2013
I graduated with Diploma in Graphic Design with a well knowledge 5 Software in the Graphic Industry, i.e Adobe Pagemaker. Corel - Draw.
Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Illustrator. Adobe In-Design.
EXPERIENCE
STUART LIMITED 2014-2017
Illustrator
In-Design
Maya LANGUAGES
KISWAHILI
Being a national i speak fluent Kiswahili
ENGLISH
I also speak the language as you can see all of my portfolio. (lol)
Being a Design Agency I was responsible for producing printable graphics, most of our clients were Goverment parastatals. There are some designs i did that has not been change a lot since i left
JOHJAM PRINTERS LTD 2021
I am responsible for producing few of the designs you will see through this portfolio. I produce the design for package design and printed here.
PROFILE
ABOUT ME ABOUT ME CONTACT ME I am Okumu Ajinga I am a Graphic Designer based in Nairobi, I am also the Designers Association of www.gdak.co.ke ajingaokumu@gmail.com +254 706 558 781 +254 720 487 218 Graphic Design being as a big industry i am a Product Designer. I love creating Designs.
SPENZA PACKAGE 01.
SPENZA PREMIUM
This product design was inspired by the idea of combining a green and red colours to bring out the outstanding design that can be very visible and notiacble from the shelves
KUTUS
The milling plant is based in Kirinyanga County around Kutus.
LOCATION
SHANGWE MAIZE MEAL 02.
LOCATION
SHANGWE MAIZE MEAL
The product was inspired by a happy family celebrating what God has offered and that is why used a happy woman’s drawing
LOCATION
The milling company is based in Kerugoya in Kirinyaga county.
SHANGWE MAIZE MEAL
The simple design looks beautiful and drives the message home as a Maize flour packet during the design process it simplicity confused many until it was printed.
CAMEL MAIZE 03.
The packaging was inspired by the name being one of the most sold packaging around Mt. Kenya as a creator i want my design to add a value to the client who needs a design.
PACKAGE PACKAGE
The milling company is located in Kitale
HARMONY MAIZE
Located in Western Kenya while designing the package i had to cook ugali buy food and make every picture custom to only the customer
HARMONY MAIZE 04.
LOCATION
The milling plant is located Nyeri County...!
LISHE UJI FLOUR
The inspiration of the package design was brought to life by the idea of encouraging a parent to view the package and buy it since it is ones of the banana flour.
LISHE UJI FLOUR
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COLONIA HARVEST
COLONIA HARVEST
One of the simple and classic design it was inpired by 3 colours which brought out a new uniques kind of a design.
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EXTRA AFYA UJI 07.
EXTRA AFYA UJI MIX
Product design brings the product to life the choice of the colours was depending what the product was gonna be about like this one has brown colour coz of the uji.
FLOJO PACKAING 08.
Another single colours design the inspiration always come from the idea the product is visible any location for the consumers.
FLOJO
Clarity and visibilty for a product design is what worries and i havr to make sure those wories are solved before sending the design to the customer.
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KIWA PACKAGE
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Citizen Kiwa Maize flour package was inspired by sunset as most meal in Kenya is taken around that time and the use of table cloth to bring the sense of a flour that is ready for serving.
KIWA KIWA
HATIMA PACKAGE 10.
HATIMA PACKAGE
Being located in the slopes of Mt. Kenya the inspiration came from the top of the mountain since the top of it is white and the flour as well. I had to take a photo of top Mt. Kenya to bring the product into life.
MBILI
MBILI
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HODI HODI PACKAGE
from the Kitchen and knocking the door to deliver.
HODI HODI PACKAGE
Brining the product into life that what makes me happy and choosing the caligraphy text was to make the name dominant and visible. Very noticable from te shelves in Supermarket.
The design was inspired by the name of the product, there is this young lady who has cooked Ugali 1
HODI HODI PACKAGE
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LIKEN PACKAGE
I wanted a package design that was simple and direct adding ugali was to bring the feel of eating once you looked a the packet whenever place you will find it.
This one is one of favorite design.
LIKEN PACKAGE 12
NEEMA PACKAGE 12.
NEEMA PACKAGE
Bearing the name of grace i had to be graceful designing this packet as i had to put up with a simple design but classy making it those packets you take a lot time designing as you think of a way to come with the general feel kind of design. One of my best
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LIKII PACKAGE
The milling plant is located Nakuru County...!
LIKII PACKAGE
The inspiration of the package design was brought to life by the idea of encouraged by previous design that was already in the market so i could not make much more changes as i wanted to.
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PALA PACKAGE 14.
PALA PREMIUM
Having designed few verson of Pala Packet i landed into this one and the idea was to add the cultery into it,
as a show of readily available flour and its preparation easy, adding maize beside the meal is for its Premium in nature
PALA PACKAGE
The choice of food was also inspired by the customer he insinted to use that image even though my pefereance was cook food hire a profesonal photographer and take a photo for unique design.
SAUTI PACKAGE
Having started the design i was to give the design some voice, so i hard to take a photo of a bowl with a flour and dried maize to give the consumers the urge to buy the packet.
Sauti package design was a bit complicated;
SAUTI PACKAGE 15
SITARA PACKAGE 16.
SITARA PACKAGE
This design was inspired with the maize plantation with a natural serene background. The chose of the font is inspired by clients tradition depecting settlements.
TOMACORN PACKAGE
The idea was to show where the corn comes from that is why i had to contact an artist to draw me the lady doing the same, the design is simple and it sends the mesage home.
TOMACORN 17
The milling plant is located Nyeri County...!
ZAYUNI PACKAGE 18.
ZAYUNI PACKAGE
This is one of those package design which was inspired by the name. When designing it i transalate the
name into English and that why there is the chose of the clouds.
ZAYUNI PACKAGE
The choice of using food was suggested by the client even though the layout was from previous design which was a single colours that i had designed few years earlier.
RICHA POA MAIZE
Inspired by the sunrise and Plantation and some food. I used fresh plantion and food to attrack the consumer. My worry when designing a package is can a cousstomergo to the self and look at it
RICHA POA MAIZE 19.
SIFA PACKAGE 20.
SIFA PACKAGE
Sifa is Kiswahili word so when designing this i need it to be simple but attractive i chose to use a bowl of flour to represent the sleaky of the design and bring this baby into life
PRODUCT DESIGN
A product designer is a creator and this qualifies as a parent and whenever you see your design across the country you find yourself smilling.
THANK YOU
For taking time and go through my porfolio these are some of other few designs i did not include here coz the idea orignated from the customer and insisted it remains the way it was.